Senior High Reading List Designing Women Foundation Revised August 2019 designingwomenfoundation.org For Online Mentor Directory, visit Follow us on Facebook Literature for Enlightenment poplarbluff.org/charlieclassics Achebe, Chinua Clarke, Arthur C. Grisham, John Things Fall Apart Childhood’s End The Chamber Adams, Richard 2001: A Space Odyssey Hansberry, Lorraine Watership Down 9 Coelho, Paulo A Raisin in the Sun 10,11 Aeschylus The Alchemist Hardy, Thomas Agamemnon Conrad, Joseph Tess of the D’Urbervilles Agee, James Heart of Darkness Hawthorne, Nathaniel A Death in the Family Lord Jim The Scarlet Letter Albee, Edward Conroy, Pat Heller, Joseph Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 12 The Great Santini 12 Catch 22 Albom, Mitch Cooper, James Fenimore Heinlein, Robert Tuesdays with Morrie The Last of the Mohicans Stranger in a Strange Land Angelou, Maya Crane, Stephen Hemingway, Ernest I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings The Red Badge of Courage A Farewell to Arms Asimov, Issac Dante, Alighieri The Old Man and the Sea 9 Foundation The Divine Comedy: Inferno The Sun Also Rises I-Robot Defoe, Daniel Herbert, Frank Austen, Jane Robinson Crusoe Dune Emma Dickens, Charles Hesse, Hermann Pride and Prejudice David Copperfield Siddhartha Sense & Sensibility A Tale of Two Cities Hillenbrand, Laura Bible Dostoevsky, Fyodor Unbroken Old Testament or New Testament The Brothers Karamazov Homer Bolt, Robert Crime and Punishment The Odyssey A Man for All Seasons Dreiser, Theodore Hosseini, Khaled Bradbury, Ray Sister Carrie Kite Runner Fahrenheit 451 12 Douglas, Lloyd C. A Thousand Splendid Suns Martian Chronicles 10,11 The Robe Hugo, Victor Bronte, Charlotte Du Maurier, Daphne Les Miserables Jane Eyre Rebecca Hurston, Zora Neale Bronte, Emily Dumas, Alexandre Their Eyes Were Watching God Wuthering Heights The Three Musketeers Huxley, Aldous Brooks, Terry Eliot, George Brave New World 11 The Wishsong of Shannara Silas Marner Ibsen, Henrik Brown, Daniel James Eliot, T. S. A Doll’s House 12 The Boys in the Boat Murder in the Cathedral Inge, William Buck, Pearl S. Ellison, Ralph Bus Stop The Good Earth 12 Invisible Man James, Henry Bunyan, John Esquivel, Laura The Turn of the Screw The Pilgrim’s Progress Like Water for Chocolate Jiles, Paulette Burns, Olive Ann Euripides News of the World Cold Sassy Tree 9 Medea Kafka, Franz Camus, Albert Faulkner, William The Metamorphosis 11 The Plague As I Lay Dying The Trial The Stranger 11 Light in August Kennedy, John F. Capote, Truman The Reivers 12 Profiles In Courage Breakfast at Tiffany’s The Sound & The Fury Kerouac, Jack In Cold Blood 12 Fitzgerald, F. Scott On the Road Carroll, Lewis The Great Gatsby 12 Kesey, Ken Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 11 Flagg, Fannie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Cather, Willa Daisy Fay & the Miracle Man Kingsolver, Barbara My Antonia Flaubert, Gustave The Poisonwood Bible Caylef, Susan Madame Bovary Knowles, John Babe: The Life & Legend of Babe Fowles, John A Separate Peace 10,11 Didrikson Zaharias The Collector 12 LaHaye, Tim Cervantes, Miguel de Gaines, Ernest Left Behind Don Quixote The Autobiography LaRussa, Tony & Buzz Bissinger Chaucer, Geoffrey of Miss Jane Pittman Three Nights in August Canterbury Tales 11 Goethe, Johann W. von Lawrence, D.H. Chekhov, Anton Faust ( Part 1) Sons and Lovers The Cherry Orchard Golding, William Lawrence, Jerome and Robert E. Lee Chopin, Kate Lord of the Flies 12 Inherit the Wind 12 The Awakening Greene, Graham Lee, Harper The Power and the Glory To Kill a Mockingbird 10,11

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Lessing, Doris Paton, Alan Stewart, Mary The Golden Notebook Cry, the Beloved Country The Crystal Cave Lewis, C.S. Plath, Sylvia Stockett, Kathryn Out of the Silent Planet The Bell Jar The Help Perelandra Pomerance, Bernard Stowe, Harriet Beecher The Screwtape Letters The Elephant Man Uncle Tom’s Cabin That Hideous Strength Posnanski, Joe Swift, Jonathan Lewis, Sinclair The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Gulliver’s Travels Babbitt Through Buck O’Neil’s America Tan, Amy Llewellyn, Richard Potok, Chaim Bonesetter’s Daughter How Green Was My Valley The Chosen Joy Luck Club Ludlam, Robert The Promise Thoreau, Henry David The Bourne Identity Raffel, Burton Walden Bourne Supremacy Beowulf Tolkien, J.R.R. Machiavelli Rand, Ayn The Fellowship of the Ring The Prince Anthem The Return of the King Maguire, Gregory Fountainhead The Two Towers Wicked Remarque, Erich Tolstoy, Leo Malamud, Bernard All Quiet on the Western Front Anna Karenina The Natural 11 Rose, Reginald War and Peace Marlowe, Christopher Twelve Angry Men Trumbo, Dalton The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus Rostand, Edmond Johnny Got His Gun 11 Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Cyrano de Bergerac 12 Turgenev, Ivan One Hundred Years of Solitude Rusesabagina, Paul Fathers and Sons McCaffery, Anne An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography Twain, Mark Dragon Flight (Hotel Rwanda) The Adventures of Dragon Quest Salinger, J.D. Huckleberry Finn 10,11 White Dragon The Catcher in the Rye Life On the Mississippi McCullers, Carson Scott, Sir Walter Pudd’nhead Wilson The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Ivanhoe Tyler, Anne McCullough, David Shakespeare, William Breathing Lessons 1776 Hamlet Virgil McMurty, Larry Julius Caesar The Aeneid Lonesome Dove King Lear Verne, Jules Melville, Herman MacBeth Twenty Thousand Leagues Billy Budd A Midsummer Night’s Dream Under the Sea Moby Dick Much Ado About Nothing Voltaire Michener, James Othello Candide The Bridges at Toko-Ri Romeo and Juliet Vonnegut, Kurt Hawaii The Taming of the Shrew Slaughterhouse-Five Miller, Arthur The Tempest Walker, Alice The Crucible 10,11 Shaw, George Bernard The Color Purple Death of a Salesman Pygmalion 11 Warren, Robert Penn Milton, John Shelley, Mary All the King’s Men Paradise Lost Frankenstein Wells, H.G. Mitchell, Margaret Shute, Nevil The Invisible Man Gone with the Wind On the Beach Welty, Eudora Moliere Simon, Neil The Optimist’s Daughter The Imaginery Invalid Brighton Beach Memoirs Wharton, Edith Morrison, Toni Sinclair, Upton Ethan Frome Beloved The Jungle White, T.H. The Bluest Eye Singer, Isaac Bashevis The Once and Future King Nafisi, Azar The Slave Wiesel, Elie Reading Lolita in Tehran: Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Night 9,10 A Memoir in Books One Day in the Life of Wilde, Oscar O’Neill, Eugene Ivan Denisovich 11 The Importance of Being Earnest Long Day’s Journey Into Night Sophocles Wilder, Thornton Orwell, George Antigone 9 Our Town 11 Animal Farm 9 Oedipus Rex 12 Williams, Tennessee 1984 12 Steinbeck, John The Glass Menagerie 10, 11 Owens, Delia East of Eden A Streetcar Named Desire Where the Crawdads Sing The Grapes of Wrath 12 Wolfe, Thomas Paolini, Christopher Of Mice and Men 11,12 Look Homeward, Angel Eldest Stevenson, Robert Louis Wright, Richard Eragon The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll Native Son Pasternak, Boris and Mr. Hyde 11 Zusak, Markus Dr. Zhivago Treasure Island The Book Thief

Numbers following titles indicate the grade at which the book is taught in senior high. Students should note that they will be credited only once for reading a book.